working and scheduling

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Many companies use Outlook Calendar or similar enterprise-wide systems
to allow people to schedule meetings and conference calls around
participants' busy schedules. Ours is one. I assume that many
techwhirlers are in the same boat.

 

Now, what happens when your US-headquartered company spans the globe,
and people in India want to set up a conference involving several North
American employees?  If it works the way it does in our company, most of
us North Americans have 9-5 local time either scheduled or free, but
everything between 17h00 every evening and 08:30 the next day looks wide
open. Fair game.

 

So far, only a couple of Product Managers at my company have their
calendars showing explicit unavailability for sleep hours, phone-only
for commuting times, and "busy" for their hockey or squash games and
their kids' recitals.

 

Are any of you being encouraged to block out your calendars on a 24/7
basis?

 

What happens when the corporation is Indian or Korean or Chinese or
Japanese or... and the branch office is in the US or Canada?  

 

I assume that as much interaction as possible occurs via e-mail, but
many people still insist on meetings/conference-calls to come to actual
decisions.

 

Any trends emerging?

 

I suppose, I also wonder if contractors get to deal with
middle-of-the-night conferencing.

 

 

-          Kevin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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